Motivational quotes to kick off your 2012

A new year is here! This is your fresh start, your time to begin anew and with renewed vigor. It’s a time to make resolutions, visualize goals, and move forward toward success, growth, and change. Commit to make 2012 your best year yet, a year that will bring you closer to achieving your personal and professional goals. Now is the time. Here are twenty-five quotes to light the fire of inspiration and motivation throughout this new year.

1. “Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.” – Karen Ravn

2. “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” – Anatole France

3. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

7. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide

8. “Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people’s criticisms, carry out your plan.” – Paul J. Meyer

9. “Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it’s who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest of most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.” – Anthony Robbins

10. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis

11. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs

12. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

18. “Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.” – Henry David Thoreau

19. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau

20. “To dream anything that you want to dream. That’s the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.” – Bernard Edmonds

21. “Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.” – Benjamin Disraeli

22. “I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” – John D. Rockefeller

23. “A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.” – Elbert Hubbard

24. “Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” – Marie Curie

25. Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is love, enjoy it!” – Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Perhaps your year will be all about professional growth. Or, maybe you want to focus on bettering yourself and your relationships. Whatever your goals for 2012, press forward, stay positive, and work hard. You can’t discover your potential if you don’t push yourself to succeed, learn, and achieve. Happy New Year!

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AGBeat Staff Writer: Charlene Jimenez earned her Master's Degree in Arts and Culture with a Creative Writing concentration from the University of Denver after earning her Bachelor's Degree in English from Brigham Young University in Idaho. Jimenez's column is dedicated to business and technology tips, trends and best practices for entrepreneurs and small business professionals.